Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 87 85
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,101 1,666 2,112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 3.36% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.77% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,404 795 1,243
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £91,269 £92,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,305 £70,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +11.11% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -22 1,809 £75,000 - 1,829
UK excluding London -24 1,155 £69,305 -0.99% 867
Work from Home -19 844 £69,310 -0.99% 847
London -17 788 £85,000 +3.03% 1,160
North of England -49 371 £75,000 +7.14% 240
South East +38 313 £65,000 -7.14% 130
North West -64 201 £77,000 +10.00% 125
South West -1 148 £67,500 +10.20% 83
Midlands -54 107 £75,000 +7.14% 96
North East +17 94 £65,000 +49.86% 42
West Midlands -40 78 £80,000 +14.29% 59
Yorkshire 0 76 £69,310 -2.38% 74
Northern Ireland -18 73 £60,000 +33.33% 77
Wales -19 68 £62,000 +19.23% 29
East of England -46 41 £60,100 -5.73% 74
Scotland -52 34 £70,000 -9.68% 139
East Midlands -61 29 £65,000 -5.45% 37
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (2.00%) Confluence
2 27 (1.29%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.95%) Apache
3 20 (0.95%) CMS
4 15 (0.71%) Camunda
5 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (0.48%) IIS
5 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 10 (0.48%) WebLogic
6 9 (0.43%) nginx
6 9 (0.43%) WordPress
7 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.33%) Drupal
7 7 (0.33%) JBoss
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.14%) DNN
9 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
9 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.048%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,088 (51.78%) AWS
2 898 (42.74%) Azure
3 332 (15.80%) GCP
4 289 (13.76%) GitHub
5 263 (12.52%) Serverless
6 201 (9.57%) SaaS
7 180 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 139 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
9 131 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
10 129 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 116 (5.52%) Amazon S3
12 106 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
13 96 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
14 87 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
15 84 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
16 65 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
17 62 (2.95%) Azure AKS
18 54 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.24%) Network Security
2 18 (0.86%) VPN
3 15 (0.71%) Broadband
3 15 (0.71%) DMARC
4 14 (0.67%) DNS
5 12 (0.57%) MQTT
6 11 (0.52%) Firewall
7 10 (0.48%) AMQP
7 10 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.43%) HTTP
9 7 (0.33%) Internet
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
11 5 (0.24%) BGP
11 5 (0.24%) RFID
12 3 (0.14%) LTE
12 3 (0.14%) NAS
12 3 (0.14%) SAN
12 3 (0.14%) SSL
13 2 (0.095%) DHCP
13 2 (0.095%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (15.33%) MongoDB
2 249 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
3 210 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 167 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 150 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
6 120 (5.71%) MySQL
7 106 (5.05%) SQL Server
8 87 (4.14%) Relational Database
9 75 (3.57%) Redis
10 54 (2.57%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.43%) Big Data
13 22 (1.05%) Pinecone
14 21 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.71%) Chroma
16 13 (0.62%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.57%) DTS
18 10 (0.48%) Db2
18 10 (0.48%) Metadata
19 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 293 (13.95%) Git
2 206 (9.80%) GitLab
3 165 (7.85%) Jenkins
4 78 (3.71%) TeamCity
5 71 (3.38%) JUnit
6 57 (2.71%) Cucumber
6 57 (2.71%) JIRA
7 43 (2.05%) Mockito
8 39 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 37 (1.76%) Maven
10 32 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 28 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 22 (1.05%) Selenium
13 17 (0.81%) REST Assured
13 17 (0.81%) Spock
14 15 (0.71%) Postman
15 14 (0.67%) JMeter
16 13 (0.62%) Vite
17 12 (0.57%) SonarQube
18 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 534 (25.42%) Finance
2 440 (20.94%) Social Skills
3 241 (11.47%) Public Sector
4 209 (9.95%) Banking
5 178 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 157 (7.47%) Law
7 149 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
8 143 (6.81%) Retail
9 98 (4.66%) Financial Institution
10 85 (4.05%) Legal
11 74 (3.52%) Back Office
12 60 (2.86%) Marketing
13 46 (2.19%) Aerospace
14 36 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.48%) Games
16 28 (1.33%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.86%) Front Office
18 14 (0.67%) Advertising
19 12 (0.57%) Manufacturing
20 11 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 750 (35.70%) Developer
2 526 (25.04%) Senior
3 384 (18.28%) Software Engineer
4 364 (17.33%) Lead
5 312 (14.85%) Architect
6 202 (9.61%) Senior Developer
7 190 (9.04%) .NET Developer
8 167 (7.95%) Java Developer
9 166 (7.90%) Full-Stack Developer
10 144 (6.85%) Java Engineer
11 134 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 127 (6.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 108 (5.14%) Principal Engineer
14 107 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
15 85 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
16 77 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.33%) Software Developer
18 66 (3.14%) Lead Developer
19 63 (3.00%) Technical Leader
20 62 (2.95%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 528 (25.13%) .NET
2 454 (21.61%) React
3 423 (20.13%) Node.js
4 414 (19.70%) Terraform
5 412 (19.61%) Spring
6 378 (17.99%) Spring Boot
7 313 (14.90%) RESTful
8 301 (14.33%) Kafka
9 295 (14.04%) REST
10 237 (11.28%) ASP.NET
11 228 (10.85%) AngularJS
12 218 (10.38%) .NET Core
13 197 (9.38%) Vue
14 192 (9.14%) ASP.NET Core
15 124 (5.90%) Blazor
16 102 (4.85%) ASP.NET Web API
17 86 (4.09%) HTML
18 85 (4.05%) .NET Framework
19 83 (3.95%) CSS
20 79 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 708 (33.70%) Cloud Native
2 395 (18.80%) Distributed Systems
3 172 (8.19%) Product Ownership
4 134 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
5 101 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
6 83 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 67 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 65 (3.09%) AI Agents
9 51 (2.43%) Virtual Team
10 49 (2.33%) e-Learning
11 46 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (1.43%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
15 21 (1.00%) Blog
15 21 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.00%) Mainframe
15 21 (1.00%) Private Cloud
16 19 (0.90%) Algorithms
16 19 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.09%) Linux
2 49 (2.33%) Windows
3 32 (1.52%) CentOS
3 32 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.05%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.33%) AIX
8 7 (0.33%) Debian
8 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (55.78%) CI/CD
2 1,024 (48.74%) Agile
3 772 (36.74%) Software Engineering
4 743 (35.36%) DevOps
5 569 (27.08%) Mentoring
6 562 (26.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 501 (23.85%) Event-Driven
8 477 (22.70%) AI
9 457 (21.75%) Test Automation
10 442 (21.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 422 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 411 (19.56%) Containerisation
13 383 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
14 336 (15.99%) Technical Leadership
15 311 (14.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 295 (14.04%) Scrum
17 276 (13.14%) Observability
18 265 (12.61%) Architectural Patterns
19 237 (11.28%) TDD
20 234 (11.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 793 (37.74%) Java
2 570 (27.13%) C#
3 505 (24.04%) SQL
4 444 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 414 (19.70%) Python
6 406 (19.32%) TypeScript
7 84 (4.00%) Go
8 55 (2.62%) Ruby
9 42 (2.00%) C++
10 34 (1.62%) Bash
11 33 (1.57%) PHP
12 29 (1.38%) Bicep
13 27 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 24 (1.14%) PowerShell
15 20 (0.95%) Rust
16 16 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.62%) Scala
18 12 (0.57%) Groovy
19 11 (0.52%) Shell Script
20 10 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 358 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 250 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 163 (7.76%) Degree
4 106 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 84 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 37 (1.76%) CISSP
9 35 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 24 (1.14%) CISM
11 18 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.48%) MBA
15 9 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.43%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.33%) CCSP
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (10.52%) QA
2 99 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.81%) WCAG
5 26 (1.24%) GDPR
6 25 (1.19%) NIST
7 19 (0.90%) Data Quality
8 17 (0.81%) NCSC
9 16 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.38%) GRC
12 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.14%) SEPA
16 3 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 607 (28.89%) Docker
2 42 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.48%) NDS
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 682 (32.46%) Kubernetes
2 126 (6.00%) Grafana
3 95 (4.52%) Ansible
4 52 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.33%) Argo
5 28 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (1.00%) Puppet
7 13 (0.62%) Cilium
7 13 (0.62%) Kibana
8 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.24%) Podman
10 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.14%) Rancher
12 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.048%) Consul
13 1 (0.048%) Control-M
13 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 343 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 102 (4.85%) Google
3 69 (3.28%) Oracle
4 54 (2.57%) Splunk
5 52 (2.48%) OpenAI
6 32 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 29 (1.38%) Okta
8 27 (1.29%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.14%) Databricks
10 19 (0.90%) Mistral
11 18 (0.86%) OneLogin
12 17 (0.81%) IBM
13 16 (0.76%) SAP
14 15 (0.71%) AppDynamics
14 15 (0.71%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.67%) Adobe
15 14 (0.67%) OpenText
16 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
18 10 (0.48%) NetIQ